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April 1940- J. L. HAWKINSON 2,i95,532

CONTAINER Filed March 9, 1938 Guam Patented Apr. 2, 1940' I UNITEDSTATES I OFFICE CONTAINER John L. Hawkinson, Hartford, Conn. ApplicationMarch 9, 1938 Serial No. 194,729

' 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to a container or the like and moreparticularly to one used as a vase for holding flowers and also'to theprocess of manufacturing same.

Heretofore it has been common practice to place in the bottom of vases aWeighted object having a plurality of openings therethrough to enablethe positioning of flowers within the vase. When loosely inserted theweighted object, due to being buoyed by the water, loses its full effectand in moving the vase from one place to another the' weight wouldslide, varying the stability of the vase and also disturbing thearrangement of flowers therein.

An object of the present invention is' a vase provided with a Weightedstem receiver formed integrally therewith.

Another object is a vase having greater stability than in vasesheretofore made. v

A still further object is such a vase wherein the weight is so securedthat the water may flow freely from one opening therein to another.

A still further object is the process of making such a vase. I

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out more indetail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists inthe'features ofconstruction,combination of elements,

and arrangement of parts which will'be exemplifie-d in the constructionhereafter setforth and the scope of the application of which will beindicated in the appended claims. In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1is a plan view of one embodiment of the invention; and 1 Fig. 2 is asectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1. Referring to the drawing, there isprovided a body it having an upper non-rectangular part 2, a lower partM of rectangular cross section,

and a bottom :6. The body part may be of ceramic material having glazedinner and outer surfaces. The vase is further provided with a heavyraised center part or stem receiver 22 formed integrally therewith. Inthe embodiment shown, the center part is also of rectangular crosssection, with its outside periphery smaller than the inside periphery ofthe side walls of the lower part of the vase. The receiver 22 may bemade separately and may also be of ceramic material or any other heavymaterial provided with a glazed surface.

The receiver 22 is provided with a plurality of openings 24preferablyextending fromthe top surface 26 to the bottom surface 28.There may. also be provided a plurality of depending lugs 30 which spacethe lower surface 28 from the bottom of the vase. The lower surface 26may rest on the bottom, but when lugs are utilized the water in thecontainer will always be equalized. The lowermost portion of receiver 22is secured to the body part in any suitable way. In the embodiment shownthere is provided a bond 33 of glazing material therebetween, thusmaking the entire structure integral,

When so constructed, the stability of the device is greatly increased inthat the full weight of the vase, receiver, and water are utilized forpositioning the vase and giving the device a low center of gravity.Moreover, in moving or cleaning, the receiver 22 will not be dislodgedor shifted.

In manufacturing the device, the body part It! is dipped or sprayed in asuitable glazing material 20. The receiver 22 is made separately andthen dipped in a like glazing material and immediately positioned withinthe vase. Theglazing on the receiver 22 and bottom of body part It! willintermingle, and the amount will be further augmented by the excess ofthe glazing material flowing down the walls of receiver 22 andcollecting around the bottom thereof or around the supporting lugs 30.When the parts are positioned, the vase is subjected to a heatsufiicient to fuse the glaze and form a solid bond between the receiver22and the .inside wall of the bottom 28. The vase thus becomes anintegral whole having a bottom provided with a heavy central raised partextending'upwardly therefrom and spaced from the side walls. p As manychanges could be made in the above construction and many apparentlywidely different embodiments of this invention could be made withoutdeparting from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mattercontained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawingshall be interpreted as illustrative and not 40 in a limiting sense.

' It is also to be understood that the language used in the followingclaims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features ofthe invention herein described and all statements of the scope of theinvention which, as a matter of language, might be said to falltherebetween.

. I claim as my invention:

l. A container of the character described, having a body part includinga bottom Wall and side walls, a heavy receiver having a plurality ofvertical openings therethrough and positioned within said container, theside walls of said receiver being spaced from the side walls of saidcontainer, spaced apart means securing said receiver 10 verticalopenings extending therethrough, said and supporting block.

supporting block having a smaller outer periphery than the innerperiphery of the container,

and spaced apart means securing said block to the container with theside walls and bottom wall spaced from the wall of the container toprovide passages between the supporting block and the side walls of thecontainer, whereby an equalized level of water will be maintained inthe'container JOHN L. HAWIQNSON.

